Come on people! If you are going to share a bit of trivia with everyone, that's fine. But if you do, maybe you should have enough common sense to verify your information. All you had to do was Google search "Ernest T. Bass". Not only will you find the actors name, but how many episodes he was in & which episodes he was in.
I mean, it's not rocket surgery!

Ken Curtis NEVER played Ernest T. Bass on "The Andy Griffin Show"!
Howard Morris played Ernest T. Bass!

Yes, the acting is wooden (although the actor playing the sheriff does the best he can) and the songs are bad, but I can't help enjoying this little movie with a lot of heart. It's been well-documented that the director made this back-to-back with "The Killer Shrews," and both would make a fun double-bill. Both knows their limitations and rise a little bit above them.

Ken Curtis made this one and The Killer Shrews back-to-back. I especially like the Sheriff played by Fred Graham-- he out-acts everyone else off the screen.

Ernest T Bass was played by Howard Morris.

WOW! Great special effects! The gila monster looked so real. The sound track was pretty awesome too. Standout performance from the guy who played Chase; white socks and all. Some fine acting from the gang.

Just one more tid-bit; before he was Festus, Ken Curtis was the crazy, lovable Ernest T. Bass on the "Andy Griffith Show"
"It's me, it's me it's Ernest T., I can see you but you can't see me!"

I've seen worse monster movies, but this was far more enjoyable with the MST3K treatment.

Interesting piece of trivia: This movie was produced by Ken Curtis, who would later become well known to TV viewers as Festus Hagan, Matt Dillon's mule loving sidekick on "Gunsmoke"

This ranks right up/down there with "The 50 Foot Woman" and "The Killer Rabbits". Such fine/terrible films thrill/offend you so much that you keep coming back for more/less. When the giant gila monster attacks, you are so frightened/disgusted you can't help yourself. I found myself hypnotized/distracted as the monster came sneaking up behind it's first victims (it weighs about 23 tons, so it's nice and quiet). This film reeks with camp, so download/delete it, you'll really love/hate it.

The sherriff seems to take his cues from the teenager mechanic. Definitely in the "so bad it's good" category, but just. It's all here, from tampering with evidence, to destruction of evidence, to theft of evidence, to disobeying the law, to breaking the law. Oh yeah, and I think there was a giant gila monster too. "Run, Forest, run!"

What a movie. The film opens with a couple on Lovers Lane, who are attacked by a mysterious creature just out of camera range. From there it's all down hill. More people disappear, their damaged cars are found. It's up to the hapless Sheriff Jeff, played by Fred Graham, to figure out what's going on. At the same time he's hounded by some local bigwig, who's the father of one of the kids in the opening scene, who wants answers or he'll have his badge! Assisting the sheriff is our hero Chase Winstead (Don Sullivan), who has the screen presence of a wet towel. When he's not working on repairing or towing cars, attending to his little sister and her leg braces, he's off singing excreable songs (like the aforementioned I Sing Whenever...ah, forget it) including one at a teens barn dance, where the giant gila monster makes an unexpected appearance and all hell breaks loose leading up to the film's exciting conclusion. This one's listed under the Horror/Science Fiction keywords, but it's more of a comedy which is why I give it three stars. One of those movies that leaves you scratching your head afterwards mumbling, "Huh?"

Not really that great a movie, but not unlike what i expected. This is a funny kind of 50's B-movie and it could be funnier and faster paced.

I fixed the audio and re-uploaded the file.

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The video seems "vertically compressed" and the audio from the MPEG2 download version is almost non-existent, and very thin and tinny in quality. I am grateful that this has been shared here, but would it be possible to please resubmit a better version of this Drive-in classic film?

The 256k version is bad. Sound is off and the movie scenes are one frame at a time.

the 550 M mpeg-1 file is bad--the movie does not have continuous action: it is herky-jerky....